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OTAKU END OF THE WORLD

“Otaku magazine wishes to spread survival methods and plans for after the cataclysm. The end of the World started a long time ago, said Edward O. Wilson and others, it has already begun as a great extinction of living species, probably similar to what happened at the end of the last ice age. All the mega-fauna had disappeared and humans started to practice agriculture. The estimations for the number of small and huge extinctions that marked life history on Earth vary from 5 to over 20. The last one, of meteoritic proportions, had crushed the Earth exactly when dinosaurs were the big and mighty creatures of the time.”

                                                                                    introduction by MEGATRON

Otaku Magazine vol.6: The End of The World cover by Inkamon

Nina Braun in Otaku Magazine:

Akinori Oishi in Otaku Magazine:

ARTICLE: The Final Genesis

ARTICLE: Gundam

ARTICLE: Godzilla, Gojira, King of the Monsters

ARTICLE:  Advice, Aphorisms and Proverbs Benefiting the Consumerism Era Survivors

Tokyo Genso in Otaku Magazine:

Jason Graham in Otaku Magazine: 

Matei Apostolescu in Otaku Magazine:

Natalie Ratkovski (left), Saddo (right) in Otaku Magazine:

Saddo in Otaku Magazine:

Aitch in Otaku Magazine:

Movies recommendations:

Anime recommendations:

Indie Games recommendations:

World Cosplay Summit in Otaku Magazine:

Cosplay in Otaku Magazine:

DIR EN GREY interview in Otaku Magazine:

I Am Not Legend, story&art by Veronica Solomon in Otaku Magazine:

FATHER by Jean-Lorin Sterian, art by Inkamon in Otaku Magazine:

Reservoir Organs, story by Jean-Lorin Sterian, art by Remus Brezeanu

Photo credits by osamot

 

AVMOTIONAL DVD 2009

The AVmotional DVD 2009 assembles the most recent Romanian projects based on the relation between sound and image in the context of the electronic/experimental music, multimedia/interactive art and VJing culture. It reveals, on one hand, the possibilities of the contemporary interface between sound and image and, on the other hand, the implementation of new technologies in the audio-visual art.

Otaku Magazine - End of the World comes with the AVmotional DVD 2009 only for the next 50 orders.

 

CONTENT & PREVIEW

REVIEW: Otaku Festival (RO), Pictoplasma (DE) • PROFILE: Akinori Oishi (JP), Nina Braun (DE) • INTERVIEW: Otaky x +cruz : W+K TOKYO LAB (JP) • ARTICLES: The Final Genesis, Gundam, Godzilla, Gojira, King of the Monsters, Advice, Aphorisms and Proverbs Benefiting the Consumerism Era Survivors • PHOTOS: Jim Lind (USA) • INTERVIEW: Tokyo Genso (JP) • ILLUSTRATIONS: Jason Graham (USA), Maaike Verwijs (NL), Matei Apostolescu (RO), Natalie Ratkovski (DE), Aitch & Saddo (RO) • RECOMMENDATIONS: MOVIES by QuietEarth.us (Ever Since the World Ended-2003, Le Dernier Combat-1983, Aparelho Voador a Baixa Altitude-2002, Threads-1984, Damnation Alley-1977, The Quiet Earth-1985, The Road-2009, Sixteen Tongues-1999, Shatter Dead - 1994), ANIME (Tokyo Magnitude 8.0, Summer Wars, Red Line, Cencoroll, The Sacred Blacksmith, Bakemonogatari), INDIE GAMES (Gravity Crash, Aquaria, And Yet It Moves, Cogs, QuantZ, Braid, Trine) • COSPLAY: Otaku Festival, Cosplay World Summit • INTERVIEW: Dir En Grey • COMICS,MANGA: I'm not legend story&art by Inkamon, Leviatan story&art by Claudio Romo, Reservoir Organs, art by Between, story by Jean-Lorin Sterian

 

SPECIAL THANKS

AVMOTIONAL • TOKYO GENSO • FAN THE FIRE MAGAZINE • CREATIVE PARTNERS • TOKYO LAB • PASSENGER PRESS • GIZ MAG • QUIET EARTH • KING GOJI • CASTLE MAGAZINE

 

 

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OTAKU PLAY is available

"Serious play represents a feature of any otaku's activity. Basically you play, but you do it with the greatest dedication, seriousness and interest. We don't want to be the prisoners of the industries that bet on our ability as playful mammals, but we desire to know them and explore their limits. Otaku PLAY explores the universe of players and play of all kinds. How and when you play. What you learn while playing and where do you risk arriving when you remain blocked within the same play."
(issue introduction by ST)

OTAKU PLAY cover by Veronica Solomon



OTAKU PLAY - Table of contents illustration by Veronica Solomon

Pisica Patrata in OTAKU PLAY

Whaleless Project in OTAKU PLAY

Pictoplasma in OTAKU PLAY

A Play Of Dolls by InkaMon in OTAKU PLAY

Bento lunches in OTAKU PLAY

Anime Recommendations in OTAKU PLAY

Movie recommendations in OTAKU PLAY

Cosplay in OTAKU PLAY

Adrian Florea in OTAKU PLAY

Adrian Florea in OTAKU PLAY

EbOY in OTAKU PLAY

EbOY in OTAKU PLAY

Nullsleep in OTAKU PLAY

Between in OTAKU PLAY

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Mykola in OTAKU PLAY

Michal Sycz in OTAKU PLAY

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Exhibition: Pisica Patrata, Whaleless, Totoro Forest Project; Pictoplasma the beginning, by Veronica Solomon; A Play Of Dolls by InkaMon; Art Installations: Suzana Dan (Romania), Iwona Liegmann (Poland), Hush Monkey Studios (USA); Bento lunches: special interview, by Cristian Botea; Gadgets, by Reactive; J-Rock Dir en grey’s Uroboros, by Irina Georgescu (Rhea); Virtual Worlds Unplugged, by Mădălin Găgeanu; A Short Visual History of Videogame, NES Coffee table, by Kyle Downes; Illustrations: Jessica Fortner (Canada), Michal Sycz (Poland), Mykola (Ukraine), Natalie Ratkovski (Germany); Recommendations: Anime, Movies (JP/USA), Games; Cosplay: Youko Nakajima (Twelve Kingdoms), Kuchiki Byakuya (Bleach), Mikan Noyamano (Air Gear), Mugen (Samurai Champloo); A World Out of Order - the Postmodern Pattern in Samurai Champloo Anime Series, by Ruxandra Târcă; Adrian Florea - Lego Ambassador special interview, by Otaku; EbOY special interview, by Bogdan Gorgăneanu; Nullsleep special interview by Otaku; 2 Player Productions; Manga, Comics: Jump! • art by Between • story by Between & Inkamon; Serial Experiments Hamster • art & story by Inkamon; Dialogues#2 • art & story by Ciubi; Cain & Abel Chapter 4 • art by Asra • story by Ruxi; Uşuraticii • art & story by Nae

Interactive DVD
(comes with OTAKU MAGAZINE)

Audio
8-bit artists from around the world
Dubmood (FR), Graffiti Monsters (USA), Ikuma (SG), Jellica (UK), Kaseo (JP), Kplecraft (JP), Makunouchi Bento (RO), minus (RO), Moloh (RO), Nordloef (SE), Nullsleep (USA), Peter Swimm (USA), Pixelh8 (UK), Random (SE), she (SE), Sidabitball (FR), USK (JP).

Video
Live performances from Blip Festival NYC
8GB (AR), 6955 (JP), Alex Mauer (USA), Bit Shifter (USA), Blasterhead (JP), B.S.K. (JP), Bubblyfish (USA), Coova (JP), Covox (SE), Glomag (USA), Kaseo (JP), Markus Schrodt (AT), minus (RO), minusbaby (USA), Neil Voss (USA), Nullsleep (USA), Postal_M@rket (IT), Saitone (JP), Saskrotch (USA), The Depreciation Guild (USA), YMCK (JP)

Indie Games
Trailers and information about the greatest independent games
Blueberry Garden, Cletus Clay, Cortex Command, Crayon Physics Deluxe, Dyson, Feist, Machinarium, Mightier, Osmos, Retro/Grade, Snapshot, Walkie Tonky, World Of Goo.

Extra
Baneling MOC, Boxing Tonight, Galaxy Tonight, Kyle Downes, Ie Ilie, Reformat the planet, Sting Operation, Video Games Live.

New York Poster from EbOY
(comes with OTAKU MAGAZINE)

Size: A2 (608×430 mm)

SPECIAL THANKS:

EbOY | 2 Player Productions | 8bitpeoples | Creative Partners | Visual Art


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Cover by Aya Kato (www.ayakato.net)

Kaidan Sounds :

Kaidan Music: ghOst (UK), Ghost (USA), Ghost of a Flea (CA), Ghost Band (USA), Ghostfog (DE) Jigoku Nohara (BE), Kaidan Eiga (IT), ManiFest (DE), Smm (RO), Likantropika (AD), Makunouchi Bento (RO).

Cover created by: Matei Apostolescu aka beaucupezero

Table of Contents created by: Mihai Marcu aka mistik

CREATURES ATTACK!

CODE RED – creatures are attacking from allover!

The attack isn’t coming from the outer space. The revue Otaku Magazine provides protection and free crossing for all the creatures INVADING Ro, Japan, Germany, Argentina, France, U.S.A., Australia, Spain, The Netherlands, UK etc. Regardless the continent or origin country, all creatures are permitted to pass freely. No matter if they have several eyes or only one; tentacles, legs, cilia or hairy hands with claws, we should already know them by name. They are looked for by the collectors, designers, otakus and by other groupies who lurk them in the street, in stores, on the shelves and in catalogues and magazines specialized in the reproduction, taming and raising of characters.

Furthermore, right now we are the only ones to ensure within a magazine’s pages an existence unpolluted by advertising and spam, cancer-like for any kind of creature, human or not.

Invited artists of CREATURES Issue:

INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS:
Friendswithyou (USA), Jeremyville (AUS), Daniel & Geo Fuchs (GER), Doma Collective (AR), C215 crew (FR), Other (CAN), William Cooney (JP), David Horvath (USA), Touma (JP), Joe Ledbetter (USA), rthq.com (UK), Shin Tanaka (JP), Remember the Little Guy (UK), Charuca (ESP), Tesha from The Cute Institute (CAN), SupaKitch (FR) , Chisami Tsuchiya (JP), Detrus (USA), Skaffa (NL).

NATIONAL ARTISTS:
Matei APOSTOLESCU(beaucupezero), Veronica SOLOMON (Inkamon), Remus BREZEANU(Between), Timotei Nicolae DROB (Nae), Mihai MARCU (Mistik), Xenia STAN (Xiusha), Alexandra Gabriela UJEUCA (Uje), Saddo, Heliana, Boti, Pikaciuka, videorgy.tv , Sidekicks, Gyorfi ZORAN, Radu POPESCU, Vladimir TAROI, Szolt , Cristi MAGUREANU.

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Cover and table of content created by: Veronica Solomon aka inkamon

CONTENT: New stuff (by Odeena) // Otaku Generation part two(by Volker Grassmuck ) // The Eroticization of Technology (by Veronica Solomon // Introduction to Cyberpunk (by Adrian Oproiu) // Recommendations (Anime, movies, manga, books, games, music) // The Paranoia first part (Cyberpunk story by Kenji Siratori) // Ilustations, (Inkamon and Tudor Avramut – RO, Ippei Gyoubu – JP, Matei Apostolescu – RO, Rose Frith – SUA, Japi Honoo – IT, La Petite Grenouille – RO) // Paper Toys (Readymech - SUA) // Robot Carnival (anime review by Between) // STAS (Megatron) // Interview (Interview width Yoshiki Sakurai) // Comic Strip Experimental (Dan Pintea, MiMi, Nae ) // Manga made in ro (Between, Asra, Kaeru) // Interview Shido (Interview with Prof. Mrs. Beatrice Budea) // Tops...

Cover and table of content created by: Veronica Solomon aka inkamon

The first issue features ARTICLES (Genshiken-esque, Atrocitati manga, Otaku Generation), REVIEWS (Crashomon), MOVIE (the most expected Asian movies in 2006), FASHION (Shubakiller, Costin George Benescu, Maria Guta, Rozalb de Mura, Karakiri, Vlad Gabriela-Maria, Anca Benera), DESIGN (Alexe Popescu), TOYS (Costin George Benescu, Reniform, Ciubi), INTERVIEWS (Tujico Noriko), ILLUSTRATIONS (Asra, Mistik, Reniform, Tehas, Hisshi, Uje), VIDEO GAMES (The New Super Mario Bros), MANGA MADE IN RO (Kaeru, Between, Asra ), OTAKU CULTURE INFLUENCE (Inkamon, Xiusha), MANGA-KA PROFILE (Tsutomu Nihei).